23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.


In Context

20 May this be the Lord 's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.

21 But you, O Sovereign Lord , deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

24 My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psalms 109:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

109:23As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.